During the search for the cholera outbreak, there were many people that were infected and died. In the first map above you can see just a few points of the many that were collected by people of where people died on the University of Oregon campus. If you look that the points collected you can see that there is a pattern to them. However, when more points were added from other people that were collecting data about where people died, (second map above) it is more obvious that the data points are clustered by the west side of the University’s campus. (Most of the deaths coming from the south west). There are however, a few deaths that do not follow the pattern and bodies were found more toward the center of campus. These points are strange but do not tend to give us any important information to our knowledge. Based off these two maps we can easily tell that there is a specific part of campus that was infected. Since most were coming from the south west of campus, it could be possible that the outbreak had spread at the Frohnmayor Music building.

Another thing to consider is that in the maps above, you can see that the points are in different colors. These colors represent the days that people were found dead. The second map provides better information about this because it is easier to recognize a pattern in it because more people could give information. There is no obvious pattern but, the deaths that occurred on the same day as each other are clustered together. This could give us information on how the disease spread from areas on a day-to-day scale.